Windows 10 Technical Preview - Insider Program

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Arthur said:
One disappointment is that my ancient Microsoft PhotoDraw V2 now can't save files in anything but native .mix format, which makes it useless. Virtual Box (4.3.12) starts up fine in Win10 but the only way to get network is to attach to NAT. In the meantime I'll have to edit an image in the Win8.1 virtual machine running on the pfSense Microserver (ESXi). This is a sad loss, but inevitable I s'pose. I was hoping to hold on the PhotoDraw for another decade...
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Would Inkscape or Dia not do the job for you? These are vector graphics editors that run on all the best operating systems.
 
Lino

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Now to check to see if the Win7 to Win10 upgrade worked on the Mac
 
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I guess I must be the only person that's not in a hurry to upgrade from Windows 7 on my laptop. :D

Windows 10 is Windows 7, with the Start page of Windows 8.1 crammed into the new intelligent start menu.

So....what's new?
 
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kingrob said:
I guess I must be the only person that's not in a hurry to upgrade from Windows 7 on my laptop. :D

Windows 10 is Windows 7, with the Start page of Windows 8.1 crammed into the new intelligent start menu.

So....what's new?
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Yeh, it kinda is, with some added desktops. So far mine is very stable.

If you only have 1 machine, don't upgrade yet. If you want to test it, use some flavour of a VM.
 
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Lino said:
Now to check to see if the Win7 to Win10 upgrade worked on the Mac
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Worked perfectly and nice and fast once I cleared all the temp files. Really impressed with 10 so far.
 
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Arthur

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garyc said:
Would Inkscape or Dia not do the job for you? These are vector graphics editors that run on all the best operating systems.
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Thanks. Will check them out. It's a pain learning a new graphics editor. I know PhotoDraw inside out, and it still has a small but fanatical following.
 
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Arthur said:
One disappointment is that my ancient Microsoft PhotoDraw V2 now can't save files in anything but native .mix format, which makes it useless. Virtual Box (4.3.12) starts up fine in Win10 but the only way to get network is to attach to NAT. In the meantime I'll have to edit an image in the Win8.1 virtual machine running on the pfSense Microserver (ESXi). This is a sad loss, but inevitable I s'pose. I was hoping to hold on the PhotoDraw for another decade...
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OMG, someone else who uses Photodraw - I thought I was the only one! I use the clone tool all the time. So simple, and works well.

garyc said:
Would Inkscape or Dia not do the job for you? These are vector graphics editors that run on all the best operating systems.
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It's a nostalgia thing. When you've been using Photodraw for nearly 15 years it's hard to change! :D
 
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Grouter said:
OMG, someone else who uses Photodraw - I thought I was the only one! I use the clone tool all the time. So simple, and works well.
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Yeah, it's a brilliant tool. It's been a standard install on all my systems for the past 15 years, and life would be seriously diminished without it.

I live in hope that compatibility will be fixed by the time Win10 RTMs. I seem to recall I also had PhotoDraw issues with early Win7 and Win8 builds, but all was resolved in the GA builds.
 
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And good news for the other MSmoney user, the sunset deluxe version installs and runs. So I'm guessing that that which runs on Win 8.1 will run on 10.
 
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